
He responds very promptly to his email, runs an open forum, and is available via chat and phone from 8-10pm every weeknight to work any and all problems out. As well, Dale offers better customer service than some paid versions I could name. It has some basic employee management, CRM, and inventory tracking features. It can run multiple types of reports – including breaking the sales down by employee. This system, despite being free, can actually hold its own among paid POS systems aimed at small business.

For extremely small businesses, the software can be run off your home computer provided you don’t mind receipts being printed on regular sheets of paper. It works with any cash register/printer/computer combo you might have, and he’s considering expanding the coding to include tablets. He designed this system for small businesses.

He is unapologetically himself and he is hilarious.Ĭash Register is a completely free POS system because, as Dale puts it, coding is his hobby and he might as well do something with it. His site is worth looking at even if you never need POS simply for a good laugh. Keyhut’s Cash Register software is the brainchild of the inimitable Dale Harris, who is the internet’s greatest grouch. Of the list below, most of the solutions are locally installed, except where specified, and none are in any particular order. In this collection, you’ll find a few open-source options, two truly free versions (which is an anomaly not just in the POS world, but in the software world at large), and several freemium products.

Free point of sale software? Isn’t that like Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster? Like things only children and crazy people believe?įree POS exists, although, to be fair, you still have to buy the hardware on which to run the software, whether that hardware is a full register/scanner/printer combo or just a home computer or tablet.īelow I’ve gathered a list of the elusive unicorns of the software world.
